Strategies
8 articles in this topic cluster.
Choosing a timeframe: the decision that quietly defines your strategy
Most traders never choose a timeframe. They inherit one from whatever chart opened first, then wonder why their rules behave inconsistently.
Exact-option strategies: why the rules are deliberately narrow
Every restriction in the exact-option specification exists because the unrestricted version of that freedom is a known way to lose a great deal of money quickly.
EMA, SMA, RSI and VWAP: what the four indicators actually measure
Every indicator is a summary of past prices. None of them contains information the price did not already have — they make it easier to see, and easier to fool yourself with.
Turning a trading hunch into a rule that can be proved wrong
Buy when it looks strong cannot be tested, cannot be backtested, and cannot be wrong. That last property is why it feels so comfortable.
A signal just fired. Now what?
The strategy did its job the moment it notified you. Everything that happens next is you — and that is where carefully built rules quietly stop being followed.
Seven ways a backtest lies to you
Nobody deploys a strategy that backtested badly. Every failed strategy therefore backtested well — which tells you exactly how much a good backtest is worth on its own.
What a PocketX backtest actually proves — and what it does not
A backtest is a record of what a rule would have done, given a specific set of bars and a specific set of assumptions. Treating it as a forecast is the most expensive mistake in rule-based trading.
How to build a rule-based strategy in PocketX
A strategy is a rule you are willing to be held to. The PocketX strategy builder is deliberately narrow so that the rule you write is the rule that gets evaluated — here is how to write one.